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U.N. Official Cites Abuses in China

Updated Aug. 19, 2002 5:07 a.m. ET

Citing a litany of abuses, the top United Nations human-rights official said Monday that China is a "cause for deep concern" as she prepares to end her term. Mary Robinson refused to say whether she thought the communist nation has become freer or more repressive during her five-year stint as the U.N. high commissioner for human rights which ends next month. "The overall situation for human rights still gives cause for deep concern," she told reporters at the start of a U.N.-sponsored seminar for Chinese judges and lawyers. She is making her seventh official visit to China. Ms. Robinson cited a...